Off topic question of the video: Best tetris piece? I love the purple t shaped one, it can go anyway.

Well, actually in Spanish, French, Portuguese, italian, etc. America is just one continen and North America and South America are just regions. Like Western and Eastern Europe, North and Subsaharian Africa, etc.

Name Explain, "Name Explain."

All the inhabitants that are born in the american continent should be called american. In my Language (Spanish) we have a word for the U.S. Citizens, "Estadounidense", roughly translated to" Unitedstatesian", wich does not exist in English, but it should,

Really? Fucking really? A channel called "Name Explain" can't even get the name of Colombia right? It's COLOMBIA, not Columbia!

"Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492" says in all my History books. Then, if you read on, you learn that Columbus came back to America 3 more times, and then if you dare to carry on reading and learning, you find out that on NONE of those FOUR trips did he ever set foot on what is now US territory. Ergo: when you say "America" to refer only to USA, you are using the name of an entire CONTINENT to refer to just ONE of the MANY COUNTRIES in such continent.

Could you do a name explain on "Dutch" and "The Netherlands" and why most other people call the Netherlands Holland. It's cool to get to know the origins of the confusion.

Vespucci is pronounced with ch sound in the end, not s

"Emelego Vispoosy" lol cringe

Hey, it's Colombia not Columbia

The small mistakes in this video are awful

VES-POO-CHEE

The USA were named America by the British... As the British named the 13 colonies as "British America" after the continent of "America", before being split into North and South America. America was first South America, then North and South America and then the USA in english... While in Spanish we still name the continent as "America" and the USA are "Los Estados Unidos". In spanish, the name of the continent hasn't ever changed... So when you learn Spanish and you speak in Spanish, please respect that case ;) "American" in spanish is "Estadounidense" and "Americano" has no literal translation in English, as we use it to call any citizen on the Americas. Nice greetings!

A few errors: I thought it was said Ves-PYOO-chee, the one country is spelled Colombia, and Vespucci was an Italian who sailed for Spain just like Columbus.

Seriously. Just call North America Turtle Island and South America America.

It's Colombia, Vespu(ch)i, anonymous (not anomynous) and Guatemala (as mentioned in other comments). Other than that, that was a very well researched and edited video.

Quick thing I want to say, you say that there are 2 continents of America, but you can also say there is only 1. just depends how you look at it and how you are raised.

This is why I, as a canadian, call the united states of america either "the us" or "the states". They don't get to take the name of our entire continent for themselves.

The Italian blocke's name is read as 'vaes-pu-CHEE' 😉 And 'Turtle Island' is very cool indeed, I wish they used it more often

That Mercator projection of the Americas does my head in.

Explain the origin of curse words

I learned quite a bit more than the answer to the question. Fantastic job!

"Amelligo vest pussy" lmfao ded 😂

America is the Continent! It is clear. What is geographically and historically correct is that Amerigo Vespucci (the 1st to recognize the existence of a New World) never explored North America and Brazil was the 1st region on planet Earth to legitimately receive the name "America" ​​in1507 by European cartographers officially (the documents are official). Therefore, a country called "united states" hasnothing to do with the name "america".Taking/misappropriating the name of the Continent cannot change the real history as they (north-americans) did in 1776. And the REAL History is: America has been the Continent (only the Continent), and the region of Brazil since 1507 is geographically, historically and legitimately the 1st America.

When the US was founded, the intention of the constitution was to unite the many British colonies (now States [per the revolutionary war]). These states were assumed to be their own countries at the time and the Federal Gov't was meant to unite the many countries (similar to the EU) under one common law. Knowing this, it's safe to assume that Europeans referred to the many countries as the land of "America". Similar to the way Americans might say "I visited Europe", even if they just visited one country. And because of it's legal structure, the US was a much more attractive place to live than the rest of the Americas when fleeing European Monarchies. So, people began to refer to 'the united States of America' as just 'America' because that was generally the country of choice when moving to the New World. That second paragraph is just a guess, but it would make a lot of sense.

Who else cringes a lot when he pronounces 'Amerigo Vespucci'?

Honduras: Ondoros LMAO

What do you mean 2 continents, I see only one: América.

My opinion is that, there is no real name, it is more of a description. Taking in consideration what they knew at the time, when this was the American continent. They just created an Union, and called it, "United States" of America.

There is a school of thought that considers America to be named after a Welsh merchant Richard ap Meyrick (Anglicised to Amerike) who financed Giovanni Caboto's voyage to the New World in the late 15th century. This conjecture was first proposed back in 1908 by a certain Alfred Hudd. Although this is speculative, one argument in it's favour is that unless a land is named after a monarch, the surname is used - eg van Diemen's Land; Pennsylvania; Bolivia; Colombia, etc. If America is derived from Amerigo Vespucci, then it really should have been called Vespuccia. But then again, tradition does not make it sacrosanct.

''Guatemalia''

So no etymology on Emeric... :(

The US is called America because it's easier to communicate. France is actually The Republic of France but we don't call it The RF, we just call it France.

Who was the Hungarian named after? We can always take this deeper Patrick.

I googled it and the name Emeric is a variation of the name Emmerich, which is a Germanic name with two elements to it: "Emme" coming from "Amal" meaning "Work", and "Rich" coming from "Ric" meaning "Rich", "Powerful" or "Ruler".

America is one continent. The separation is completely arbitrary. The people who named this continent meant for all the land to be called America, as it is by the majority of people who live in it. Only US Citzens and about 80% of Canadians (Quebecois people also believe it's one continent) say it's two continents. I'm okay with the US being called America, but even that would make no sense if there were two continents: It's called the United States OF AMERICA. If North America is a continent, then where did the Founding Fathers took that name from?

Spoiler: It was named after Amerigo Vespucci, because he was the first to theorize that America wasn’t Asia.

But should America not be called Vespuccia if named after Amerigo Vespucci. Like Colombia is named after Christoffer Colombus, using his last name? :-)

This vid claims that 'America' is the Latinized version of Amerigo.. but I think it's actually the feminized version. The feminized name choice was explained in the original book accompanying the map first utilizing 'America'.. Other continents had utilized feminine titles, so.. The Latin version of Amerigo would actually be Americus, no (?)

Columbia is as conceptual alternative name for the New World, recognizing Christopher Columbus as the discoverer. The South American country, albeit named precisely for that concept, is Colombia (vowels ooia instead of the Latin ouia), as it was rendered in Spanish.

"Vespucci" is pronounced "Vespuchi" not "Vespussi". Also, I have heard it theorised that America wasn't, in fact, named for Vespucci (It would be one of the only places ever to be named for someone's given rather than family name, otherwise being "Vespuccia") and was actually named for Richard Amerike, an Anglo-Welsh map maker who never actually went there but whose maps were among the first of the continent.

Probably beating a dead horse here but Vespucci is pronounced more like Ves-poo-chee.

You had one job and ended up writing Columbia instead of Colombia.

The Americas don't exit just America only America is the all continent nothing more

You spelled the country Columbia wrong dude. Its Colombia 🙄. That's something an average "American" from the states would do.

What do you think of the theory discussed on QI that America was in fact named for Richard Amerike?

Great video, but as a Canadian myself I cringed at the term "natives". While this term is evidently still in general use in English, Indigenous groups in Canada generally have this order of preference: Indigenous>First Nations/Inuit/Metis>Aboriginal>Native>Indian. That's my understanding as a white Canadian with some cursory knowledge of these issues at least. Native often has a derisive connotation from what I've seen, and the term "Native American" is specific to the USA. Also, "tribes" is seen as outmoded in some circles I think because it implies a lower level of social sophistication than kingdom/country/nation/etc., contrary to the historical reality of many American Indigenous civilizations. I'd also like to say that though I like the video's final point about the multinational heritage of the Americas, we must acknowledge that American Indigenous nations have been historically excluded from this narrative and that European colonial domination is signified in the continent's name. As I said, these are my thoughts as a white (non-Indigenous) Canadian, and I don't mean to come off as preachy or hostile (i.e. the cliche "SJW"). I hope I've made some salient points.

Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent America

A good video, but you didn't include my country of Canada. Moreover, your map of United States didn't incorporate all the 50 states such as Alaska and Hawaii.

America is a continent , colonized by spain , named america after the italian amerigo vespucci , it was gonna be named colombia after cristoforo colombo , but they named it after vespucci , idk why the yanks believe they are the whole continent , its like sayin frances is europe...

It's not called a cappussino, why would you say Vespussi? I love your videos but when you get names wrong on _Name Explain_ it hurts my insides.

Guatemalia.... ?

Amerigo Vespucci was not originally named Amerigo , he changed his name

I wonder if the Founding Fathers ever intended for that to be it's formal name. We had colonies of various origin, who were distinct entities unto themselves. For a while, these states were referred to as "*These* united states", plural, instead of singular. But more to the point, I wonder how much they were really defining the name of the nation, and how much they were simply referencing where these united states resided, within the continent of America. It's bit like a bunch of people always describing their city as in the "middle of nowhere" and suddenly they realize their county doesn't have a name, so lets call it "Nowhere" since that's what we're in the middle of.

I'd guess "Amerigo Vespucci," but if someone named an entire continent after themselves, I suspect most people would ignore them and name it after the guy who _wasn't_ incredibly arrogant.

They don't teach this in any given school in the US! What a SHAME!

In Spanish we call USA only the United States and we really use to drop the «America» part even in formal contexts... Furthermore, nobody uses our full form of USA’s abbreviation (EUA) instead of the US one (EEUU) because if we see it we’ll trend to think it's referring the United Arab Emirates (EAU)... And like everybody we call the american country named Mexican United States just Mexico but when an «estadounidense» (“unitedstater”) says being American we can joke with these other American United States. The Americas in plural is an odd concept most of us have literally never heard nor even employ it when using English

The country that has no name.

In Spanish, no country is called America.

Nice video. But you are wrong in one thing. Central América does not belong to North América, is completly another subcontinent and, yes, it goes from Guatemala to Panamá. The term "Centroamérica", in the other hand, is a political definition to the countries that got the independence from spain in 1821 which are the same countries But Panamá.

All of this has been completely refuted. America was the Mayan name of the mountain range in eastern Nicaragua. Specifically the "Cordillera de Amerrisque", before Cristobal Colon ever made it to the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast. Anybody can be an expert on YT,,,,

I always thought of Central America as including the Carribean

Vespucci beach from GTA V was also named after Amerigo Vespucci!

Why do Asian languages tend to call the country “America”?

America starts in Canada, and ends in Chile

No. Central America is in South America, there are THREE countries in North America. Mexico, Canada and The USA

Hej Name Explain... I don't want to be that annoying Colombian person telling you that it is Col-O-mbia, not Col-U-mbia. They are two different... really different places with a different name. And no, Columbia is not the english version of Colombia.

Any fellow Canadians here also twitch when someone says "America" to mean the country and silently thinks, "That country still doesn't own both continents, no matter what they want to believe."?

Vespucci was a cartographer, and he's remembered more for that than for being and explorer

The Declaration of independence has a line the were "We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, " names the USA as the United States of America , So I would respectfully disagree as America is part and parcel of the official name of the USA and is so named in the Declaration.

America is a continent; not a country!

Sheesh, you couldn't be more off! That's where "It's believed.. " takes you. "America" comes directly from the word Amerrisque. Amerrisque is a range of mountains in Central AMERICA. The spine of the mountains go through NICARAGUA. When Vespucci hit Nicaragua, he explored through these mountains. What he found was a highly established indigenous civilization, with a shit load of gold everywhere! When he got there he was called Alberigo when he left he named himself Amerigo after the name of the range of mountains that was called, what class?!?!..AMERRISQUE mountains. AMERigo/AMERrisque. People call themselves "American" and have nooo fucking clue what you're calling yourself. It's a Mayan word that's made up of a Mayan prefix and suffix. Vespucci literally stole everything, even the name. He didn't name the land after himself, he name himself after the land! Real history class is now done for the day.

You spelled Colombia Wrong

Your drawn picture seems accurate. Well done.

Thus the confusion about whether Columbus discovered America or not. He discovered The Americas, referred as 'America' in most countries, but not the United States of America.

The United States was assembled once we fought England for our independence When we had 13 original colonies. It's no secret. Look it up.

The United States was assembled once we fought England for our independence When we had 13 original colonies. It's no secret. Look it up

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A simple message for what seems like more than half of the commenters, the name of the channel is name *explain* , not name *pronounce*

*2:12 it’s Colombia

Mate, the "-cci" in "Vespucci" is pronounced as the "chi-" in "chicken." Please stop pronouncing like an "s", my head hurts.

Did you call chess "chest"?

Middle America = Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Coasta Rica and all the Carribean islands

it is Colombia not Columbia.

where does the word america come from? where did the word australia come from? where did the english language come from? it came from no where, right....

I know it might be a little over the top ^^ but I I'm always annoyed by the usage of the "new" German flag (black, red, gold/yellow) instead of the original German Reich Flag (black, white, red) when talking about historic things. In this case you should've used the flag of Lorraine I believe or to generalize him as a German, the flag of the Holy Roman Empire. ... Yea probably over the top.

Why do you use a Mercator projection? Don't understand why people still use it at all.

“How to play chest” 💀

US could mean any country called united states

Someone needs to start a petition to rename the continent of North America to Turtle Island

99% of "north americans" don't know this.

In Canada we say "the States"

What was the name before America

Do a video on KZfaq's name!

I have heard another story and it deals with a feathered serpent? idk

Why is Brazil called Brazil?

According to Josephus, the essenes believed that good souls have their inhabitation beyond the ocean and in the West. This belief was common to the Jews, Greeks, Celts and the Mandaeans said this land was marked by a star, the evening star which they called 'Merica'. Today it is known to be the planet Venus, but did some of the first settlers remember this legend and name the new world 'America' after the evening star?

Can you do s video about the words, Desert and Dessert?

Who is America Ferrera named after?

we started off with 13 colonies which decided to rebel against the king of Britain, we then were called the former colonies, which became known as states, these states after the Revolutionary war decided to unite together to.......wait for it.........form the United States of America